(n.) The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
(n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(2) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(3) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
(4) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
(5) Successful treatment also requires the use of assertive case management, community support, family support, and careful patient education.
(6) The UN-recognised parliament is expected to meet on Monday for a vital vote of confidence in the new administration, the next step in asserting its authority in the country.
(7) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(8) Is it a moment where culture needs to assert its values?
(9) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
(10) Individuals in the middle received relatively large amounts of assertive behavior.
(11) No differences were observed on the behavioral role plays, which required assertion in a number of heterosexual situations.
(12) Bill Shorten has told the union royal commission he would “never be a party to issuing bogus invoices” as he rejected assertions that payments from employers to the Australia Workers’ Union created conflicts of interest during wage negotiations.
(13) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
(14) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(15) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(16) We assert that OCD and AVN are relatively common, clinically significant lesions of the mandibular condyle often associated with preexisting internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.
(17) On the basis of the results of the research the Authors conclude by asserting that the combined use of mannitol and propanol has a real protective effect in preventing or attenuating lesions of the kidney caused by serious acute renal failure.
(18) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
(19) The ethnomedical model asserts that efforts to secure the compliance of target populations are likely to be inadequate without an alliance between health professionals and communities to identify and address mutually comprehensible objectives that are perceived locally as meaningful and relevant.
(20) Moreover, the heterogeneity of ES components questions the assertion of previous workers that the allergenic, IgE-potentiating, and protective activities of larval ES can be ascribed to one molecular species.
Debug
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(2) I'm hoping that the debugging code within the iOS core is partly to blame here, and once it reaches release the core's footprint will shrink and things will run as smoothly as iOS 4.
(3) 8-yr.-olds who learned Logo in school were found to use both debugging techniques and procedurality in their computer programming.
(4) Using the simulator in the development and debugging of control programs has several advantages over using the real pump: it provides detailed pump status information and it can stimulate various error and alarm conditions to comprehensively test the error recovery procedures of the control program.
(5) The assessment of growth changes was based on the method of superimposition described by Björk and Skieller (1983) supplemented by a new computerized debugging procedure.
(6) But it seems many parents will be surprised when their children come home from school talking about algorithms, debugging and Boolean logic.
(7) House has a PhD in electrical engineering and is an expert in user interfaces – now she's applying that skill with systems to a workforce, - she is effectively debugging the development team.
(8) In this paper we show a program written in BASIC and debugged on a Sharp MZ-700 personal computer, equipped with the Sharp MZ-1P01 plotter.
(9) Boys, but not girls, trained in Logo showed an improvement in debugging skills relative to the control children.
(10) Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds): Slightly older primary-school children will be creating and debugging more complicated programs with specific goals and getting to grips with concepts including variables and “sequence, selection, and repetition in programs”.
(11) They and a group of control children of the same age were pre- and posttested on a game requiring debugging skills (Mastermind) and another game requiring procedural skills (Tower of Hanoi).
(12) But they will also be creating and debugging simple programs of their own, developing logical reasoning skills and taking their first steps in using devices to “create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content”.
(13) Use of the preprocessor does not interfere with the capability to debug programs interactively which is one of the most helpful characteristics of interpretive implementations of BASIC.
(14) Two 2-D graphic display tools are developed to help the debugging of a given geometric model.
(15) The authors debugged and launched into routine operation an automated monitoring system using computer techniques.
(16) And it also turned out that Obama's advisers were so paranoid about Republican attacks that they refused to allow the beta testing essential to debug any high-traffic site.
(17) The common theme of the successful places I’d seen seemed to be a handful of hardy young entrepreneurs, the sort who can make their own clothes, granola and business plans at the same time as snowboarding the local mountains or debugging a laptop: the cool tycoons.
(18) Software development for the front-end is performed on the host with program down-load for interactive debugging.
(19) For ease in debugging and verifying adherence to the standard, all information in the file is encoded in printable ASCII characters.
(20) In addition, it has features which aid in debugging associated programs.